"I find the world and all it contains extremely fascinating. Is this sinful?"

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Source : Robert Silverberg (2004). “Phases of the Moon: Stories of Six Decades”, Subterranean

Robert Silverberg

“I thrive off the company of others, I love being sociable.”

Source : "Walliams on love, sexuality and loneliness" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. February 21, 2009.
“When we express our needs indirectly through the use of evaluations, interpretations, and images, others are likely to hear criticism. When people hear anything that sounds like criticism, they tend to invest their energy in self-defense or counterattack. It's important that when we address somebody that we're clear what we want back.”
“The great motherhood friendships are the ones in which two women can admit [how difficult mothering is] quietly to each other, over cups of tea at a table sticky with spilled apple juice and littered with markers without tops.”
“Peter did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. But that made no difference to what he had to do.”
“All I do know is that I'll never be able to achieve what Tommy Docherty did, and that is take Aston Villa into the third division and Manchester United into the second division”
“I have come to the conclusion that it is attitude that determines how you handle and survive life.”
“She is not a writer at all, really; she is merely a gifted eccentric.”
“[M]emory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present.”

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